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1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - A black and white photograph of ?B? Company's Anti Tank section in a Canadian jeep with a 106-mm recoiless rifle in Canada on exercise in 1961 with, from left to right, Privates Bowles, Sear, Hatt and L/Corporal Wright. At the time, each rifle company had support weapons such as mortars and anti tank guns attached. This was changed when the Battalion went to West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in 1965 when the Support Company was formed. [The Battalion had the loan of two of these weapons from the Canadian Army while they were in Canada].

1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph showing regular soldiers of the Battalion, in the trenches in 1915. The officer seated right is Captain Alan John Bowles, who served initially in the 1st Bn, and later in the 2nd Battalion where he was killed in action on the 10th April 1916. He is buried at Becourt Military Cemetery. The soldier facing (Centre) is carrying an extra bandolier of 50 rounds of ammunition in addition to what he would have been carrying in his webbing. This appears to be a part of a quiet sector, otherwise the soldier looking over the parapet would have soon come to the attention of a German sniper.

1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph showing regular soldiers of the Battalion in the trenches in 1915. The officer standing left is Captain Alan John Bowles, who served initially in the 1st Bn, and later in the 2nd Battalion where he was killed in action on the 10th April 1916. He is buried at Becourt Military Cemetery.

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - One of a collection of 131 photographs relating to the service of Ex Sergeant Daniel Davis between 1960 and 1974 which are contained on CDRom 21643 This black and white photo shows training at the Stanford Training area in 1961when the Battalion was stationed at Tidworth and includes Privates Wilson, Bowles, Hatt, Jones and Davis

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - One of a collection of 131 photographs relating to the service of Ex Sergeant Daniel Davis between 1960 and 1974 which are contained on CDRom 21643 This black and white photo shows training at the Stanford Training area in 1961when the Battalion was stationed at Tidworth and includes Privates Wilson, Bowles, Hatt, Jones and Davis

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - One of a collection of 131 photographs relating to the service of Ex Sergeant Daniel Davis between 1960 and 1974 which are contained on CDRom 21643 This black and white photo shows training at the Stanford Training area in 1961when the Battalion was stationed at Tidworth and includes Privates Wilson, Bowles, Hatt, Jones and Davis

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - One of a collection of 131 photographs relating to the service of Ex Sergeant Daniel Davis between 1960 and 1974 which are contained on CDRom 21643 This black and white photo shows members of the Battalion in 1961when they were on exercise in Canada; they are Privates Bowles, Sear and Hatt and Corporal Pedro Wright and they are seated on an anti-tank jeep

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - One of a collection of 131 photographs relating to the service of Ex Sergeant Daniel Davis between 1960 and 1974 which are contained on CDRom 21643 This black and white photo shows members of 'B' Company anti-tanksection in 1961when they were on exercise in Canada; they are (left to right) Privates Sear, Hatt, Johnson, Bowles, Wilson and Withers

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of the grave (In the foreground) of Captain Alan John Bowles who was killed in action on the 10th April 1916 and who is buried at Becourt cemetery. This photo was taken shortly after the war after his family had placed personal grave markers above his grave. This was removed a short while later when the responsibility of maintaining the graves was taken over by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Royal Berkshire Militia - A sepia portrait photograph of Lieutenant John Thomas Bowles, of Milton Hill and Streatley sometime in the 1870s. He was born on the 5th October 1852, the eldest son of John Samual Bowles, of Milton Hill, by Mary, daughter of Rev. Ashhurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, educated at Eton and Christchurch; he was called to the Bar of the Inner Templeand promoted Lieutenant 31st December 1873, Captain 15th February 1879, Major 18th August 1886 and Lieutenant Colonel 28th April 1894.

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of Captain Alan John Bowles of ?A? Company during the 1st World War. He had previously served in the 1st Battalion and had been Mentioned in Dispatches. He was killed in action on the 10th April 1916, aged 20. It is said that, in May 1915, by his prompt acceptance of a great responsibility, he saved the Battalion from disaster. He was the only son of Captain F. Alan R. Bowles, R.N. and Ann Caroline his wife, of Dully House, Sittingbourne, Kent. He is buried in the BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia photograph of a group of soldiers carrying out fatigue duties in South Africa during the Boer War 1899 ? 1901. It is entitled ?Navvies at Work?. and shows, from left to right, Private Hobson, Private Glazebrook, Private Sturgess, Private Haynes, Corporal O?Connell, Sergeant Vockins, Private Weston, Private Spencer, Private Challis, Private Bowles, Private Holland, Private Whiteing, Private Midwinter. [Later in life Sergeant Vockins became the caretaker of the Drill Hall in Wokingham]

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of the Battalion signallers in India, believed to have been taken about 1907. In the rear row froim left to right are Privates Cripps, Taylor, Smith, Eggleton, Day and Masters. In the middle row from left to right are Privates Gillingham, Smith, Huntley, Austin, Harper, Bragden and Steele. Seated from left to right are Private Cox, L/Corporal Bowles, Sergeant New, Lieutenant L.W. Bird, Sergeant Inman and Privates Heath and Hunt.

1st/4th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment - A sepia group photograph of the Sergeants in Delhi, India in 1915. It shows, in the rear row, from left to right, Sergeants Whatley, Huntley, Fluck, Holbrook, Stafford, Simmons and Waters. In the 2nd row, from left to right, are Sergeants Henley, Bowles, Hopkins, Card, Powney, Fetham, Blake, Garrett, Howe, Stoppard, Opie, Randell, Jones, Bretlain and Marsh. In the 3rd row, agan left to right,, are Sergeants Raine, Munday, Whittaker, Green, Graway, Chard, Leppard, Lenton, Holland, Wallis, Paget, Smith, Burns, Feltham, Grainger, Bailey and Kimber. The 4th row has Sergeant Rowes, Notley,Ellwood and Liddiard, Major Armstrong, Colonel Radnor, Captain (Adjutant) Bond, Sergeants Slick, Thorne, Hare and Thomas.. In the front are Sergeants Cooper, Bryant, Day, Humphries, Stowe, Randell, Drewitt, Walker, Sprag and Hoad. [Note the names are from the notes made by Sergeant Notley in the album, some of the names may have been misspelt]. Sergeant Munday later won the Distinguished Conduct Medal in Palestine in 1917 and Major Armstrong was killed in action whilst in command of the Battalion.